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Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to Fortune 100/500/1000 companies in Canada. We currently have a long term, renewable contract as a Systems Team Lead with our IT consulting client that primarily supports North American clients on various website and backend infrastructure services.

Role(s) Required: Systems Manager

Location: Remote (anywhere in Canada/USA/South America, but must be able to work on EST with the Canadian team)

Required Start Date: ASAP

Required End Date: 12 months + renewable every year

Type: Contract

Total Hours Approved Per Role: 40h/week

Rate: $60,000 - $65,000/year

Client Location: US/Canada

Reporting directly to the CTO and managing the Systems department. This is a leadership role responsible for the overall technical management, operations, ongoing maintenance and support of our large-scale production websites and networks.

• Chief responsibility over systems and networks.
• Maintain vendor relationships, as required, for technical infrastructure of office and website systems.
• Work directly with the Development Team Leads and Project Management in managing projects for the website and provide final sign-off/approval for release to production.
• Work directly with Senior Management, participate in planning and project discussions for various websites.
• Analyze and assess areas of risk to systems and recommend/implement changes as appropriate to the business.
• Continuously assess network and systems security, ensuring a high level of systems data security is maintained overall. Report concerns directly to the CTO.
• Perform systems and network architectural design for the sites network, including capacity planning, hardware, infrastructure, software integration, OS and software performance tuning.
• Act as single point of escalation of production issues, interfacing with required resources to see issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Effectively manage risk, including monitoring, system redundancy and backups based on business requirements and acceptable risk.
• Supervise, coach, motivate and inspire team members to maintain healthy group dynamics while maintaining company directives and policies.
• Provide technical assistance and consultation as required to all areas of the company, including Project Management, Sales, Quality Assurance, Accounting, Customer Service, Development and Systems departments.
• Perform special tasks and projects company-wide, as assigned by the CTO.

• 5+ years of experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• Minimum of 2+ years of management/leadership experience in a technology oriented organization required.
• Must be well versed supporting web servers.
• Strong background with storage SAN (NFS and iSCSI).
• Well versed with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash).
• Experience with adding/removing nodes, expanding clusters, rebuilding clusters, and using InfluxDB.
• TCP/IP knowledge BGF and OSPF.
• Hands-on experience with Linux in a Systems Administrative role.
• Hands-on experience with Advanced Network Administration, including routing, switching and security.
• Exceptional problem determination and creative problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal skills.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle.
• Strong documentation and organizational practices.
• Extensive experience with many of these:
• MySQL maintenance and troubleshooting.
• LAN/WAN/VPN setup and troubleshooting.
• Linux-based and other firewall technology.
• Cloud technologies (OpenStack, oVirt, RHEV or similar).
• Baremetal hardware, SAN, Switching and Load-balancing.
• Backup technologies.
• Systems security.
• Automation systems (Ansible, Puppet or equivalent).
• Expertise with multiple Web technologies.